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With official C&C games staggering dazedly around development limbo at the moment, our need for a tasty bit of NOD must instead be sated by the fan community. Renegade-X is a modders’ ambitious and apparently impressive attempt to redo EA’s ill-fated FPS-RTS spin-off Renegade, and it’s been in the works for quite a while now. Last November brought news that a version 1 release would arrive on February 26th; today brings news that a version 1 release will arrive on February 26th. Er. Well, I suppose someone meeting a projected release date, especially in oft-unpredictable modland, is news of a sort. Anyway, it’s a handy reminder for your diaries, plus there’s an extensive new trailer to look at, showing plenty of in-game shootybangery.

Did you see the shooting? And the bangs? It’s easy to miss. Try freeze-framing at 51 seconds in then enlarging the image by 216% and you might be able to see it.

Anyway, this looks pretty impressive. I’m probably too old and tired for it, but I might be tempted – a decade and a half ago, a first-person C&C was basically the most exciting idea I’d ever heard, and perhaps something of that easily-impressed, populist sci-fi-obsessed teenager still hides within me. (Though I’m pretty sure the release of The Phantom Menace delivered a fatal blow long ago).

Back in December, there was also this video demonstrating X’s remaking of Renegade’s Mesa map:

February 26th for this, which is also my birthday. What are you going to get me?

I would have to place it very high in my ‘best multiplayer games ever’ list. About the only multiplayer FPS I spent more time with was Team Fortress Classic, with Battlefield 2 being about tied. At the time I think a lot of people were put off by the admittedly shonky singleplayer – it didn’t help that the demo focused solely on that aspect.

Yes but fans of C&C serie seems to have amnesia whenever a X game in C&C game is brought upp (such as C&C3 and Renegade) because i though people hated it with a pasion (or atleast laugh at its attemt) back then as much as C&C4 now.

I like the lore and the possible uses for it, but I don’t like the maps. I want more verticallity… something that maybe this type of engines don’t support well. Will you be part of a tank battle in the wastelands of Kansas?

Anyway I am going to download this. I am getting a bit tired of my usual FPS’s, and need a new thing.

I absolutely loved Renegade. My wife and I both played it for hundreds of hours. I championed it any chance I had, and still remember it fondly. This release is extremely interesting, and I’ll will certainly check it out when it releases.

I’ve been looking forward to this one. I’m a massive fan of the original renegade and spent countless hours in multiplayer. Well, playing bots as I had literally the worst internet ever but it didn’t matter!

It’s looking really nice as well. The movement looks like a good auld fashioned shooter, I’ll definitely give it a go!

I remember seeing shots with that guy with the silly tattoos and red bandana in the trailer; it was originally only in third-person if I recall, then the actual game looked absolutely nothing like it. Can’t find any in-game stuff anymore; only that trailer.